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Denigrate vs Demigrate - What's the difference?

denigrate | demigrate |

As verbs the difference between denigrate and demigrate

is that denigrate is to criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame while demigrate is to emigrate.

denigrate

English

Verb

(denigrat)
  • To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
  • To treat as worthless; belittle, degrade or disparage.
  • (rare) To blacken.

    • Derived terms

    * denigration * denigratory

    demigrate

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) (lena) demigrare.

    Verb

    (demigrat)
  • (obsolete) To emigrate.
    • (Cockeram)

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (demigrat)
  • To cancel or return from migration (of e.g. a computer system).
  • * 2002 , Charles V. Breakfield, Roxanne E. Burkey, Managing Systems Migrations and Upgrades (page 196)
    • The reason is that it is more cost effective to debug and troubleshoot the new environment than to demigrate and lose all the data transactions completed under the new technology.
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